Yellow Poplar
Yellow Poplar for carving: how hard it is, how the grain behaves under the knife and what carvers use it for.
- Janka hardness (lbf)Side hardness as published by The Wood Database
- 540 lbf
- Grain
- straight, fine, green-tinted
- Used for
- relief, signs, practice
- Ease of carving
- easy
- In the woodworking database
- Yellow Poplar
- Notes
- Inexpensive practice wood; carves cleanly but the colour streaks, so it is usually painted.
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